wi-fi not working on Inspiron Mini 10v(1018) with Ubuntu 10.10

[faber666]

Hi, I have a Dell Inspiron Inspiron Mini 10v(1018) and 
wi-fi off with UBUNTU 10.10!! 

My network controller is: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 8176 
(rev 01) 

The the command line (sudo lshw): 

*-network 
                description: Ethernet interface 
                product: RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet 
controller 
                vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. 
                physical id: 0 
                bus info: pci@0000:05:00.0 
                logical name: eth0 
                version: 05 
                serial: 5c:26:0a:09:5d:42 
                size: 10MB/s 
                capacity: 100MB/s 
                width: 64 bits 
                clock: 33MHz 
                capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master 
cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 
autonegotiation 
                configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes 
driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=half latency=0 link=no 
multicast=yes port=MII speed=10MB/s 
                resources: irq:42 ioport:2000(size=256) 
memory:f0f2c000-f0f2cfff memory:f0f18000-f0f1bfff 

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sudo lshw -C network 
[sudo] password for faber: 
  *-network 
       description: Ethernet interface 
       product: RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller 
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. 
       physical id: 0 
       bus info: pci@0000:05:00.0 
       logical name: eth0 
       version: 05 
       serial: 5c:26:0a:09:5d:42 
       size: 10MB/s 
       capacity: 100MB/s 
       width: 64 bits 
       clock: 33MHz 
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list 
ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation 
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 
driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=half latency=0 link=no multicast=yes 
port=MII speed=10MB/s 
       resources: irq:42 ioport:2000(size=256) memory:f0f2c000- 
f0f2cfff memory:f0f18000-f0f1bfff 
  *-network UNCLAIMED 
       description: Network controller 
       product: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. 
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. 
       physical id: 0 
       bus info: pci@0000:07:00.0 
       version: 01 
       width: 64 bits 
       clock: 33MHz 
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list 
       configuration: latency=0 
       resources: ioport:3000(size=256) memory:f0100000-f0103fff 

In the past Realtek support with Ubuntu 10.04 I had sent a driver (RTL8188CE linux drivers 
with Device ID 8176) and the wi-fi had worked properly. 
But this driver did not install properly on Ubuntu 10.10. 

Which driver do you recommend using it for my device? 
Unfortunately I'm looking for a solution in http://goo.gl/z0JJ, but I 
do not need of Broadcom Wireless driver. 

Thank you very much 

Fabrizio

[bdwyfan@hotmail.com]

read http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1604101

[Siva9789]

try this command in terminal and check wireless drivers is getting detected.

sudo -E make clean modules

sudo make install

sudo depmod -a

blacklist r8169

sudo update-initramfs -u

restart your system

-hope your problem will be fixed

or

go to synaptic package manager and try to do a search for realtek wireless drivers.

[Siva9789]

try this command in terminal

sudo -E make clean modules

sudo make install

sudo depmod -a

blacklist r8169

sudo update-initramfs -u

-hope your problem will be fixed

thanks

[faber666]

Thanks SIVA9789, my solution wasalready:

driver for RTL8188CE Dell Inspiron Mini 1018:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lexical/hwe-wireless
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install rtl8192ce-dkms

best regards

Fabrizio

[Solution Develo]

I am happy have experienced this problem coz, i learnt something from it, after going through all the forum, cud not find the problem but managed to fixed it by removing and putting back the motherboard battery, till now have not experienced the problem again, this problem sometimes disables the wifi functionality and to enable it might require doing this process which reboots the memory